SATA to USB

[ospray]

I have a Apricorn SATA Wire 3.0 but do not have the software that came with the Apricorn, so maybe that is my issue...But when I go to use it with the 2.5 drives I have my computer recognizes the cable but not the drives? They are both mac Drives and I have a PC, which could also be the problem...do I need to have software to get the drives to show up and pull data off them? OR is it even possible to use the cable as and drive like a thumb drive?

 

[mcnumpty23]

dont think windows can natively see mac drives

think you need something like the aptly named macdrive software

no you shouldnt need software that came with the apricorn it should show up in windows as a hard drive to browse,copy,clone etc with out that software

edit--macdrive software might be able to use free trial to test you can see the drives

http://www.mediafour.com/software/macdrive/

 

[Solandri]

Macs write to drives in HFS+ format. Windows does not natively read nor write this format.

Windows write to drives in NTFS format. Macs can natively read this format, but not write to it.

exFAT was the format created to allow sharing drives between Macs and PCs. If you have a drive which you're going to be using with both types of systems, format it as exFAT.

Otherwise, your only option is to get software which allows Windows to read/write HFS+ disks, or OS X to write to NTFS. I haven't seen good free versions of either, so you're probably gonna have to pay for it. Paragon does make one that lets you read HFS+ (you have to pay for the write version).

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows-free/